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L. F. BETTS. I Nozzle for' Oan and other Vessels.

No. 231,144. Patented Aug. 17,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'LEWIS F. BETTS OF CHICAGO, ILL, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO JOSEPH S. DENNIS AND HENRY N. \VHEELER, OF SAME PLAOE.

NOZZLE FOR CANS AND OTHER VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,144, dated August 17, 1880.

Application filed February 2,1878.

To all whom it may concern: are made in the side, arranged a little above Be it known that I, LEWIS F. BETTs, of the bottom 0. These openings are elongated, Chicago, in the county'of Cook and State of so that when the tube is turned down in the Illinois, have invented a new and useful Imnozzle to its lowest point their upper portion provement in Nozzles for Cans and other Veswill still be above the diaphragm D, while 55 sels, which is fully set forth in the following their lower portion will be below the diaspecification, reference being had to the acphragm, and consequently open into the intecompanying drawings, in which rior of the vessel; but as they are a little above Figure 1 represents a plan view of a canthe flange on the bottom 0, when the tube is nozzle embodying my improvement; Fig. 2, adjusted to its highest point the openings will 60 an elevation of the same without the spout; be entirely above the diaphragm.

, Fig. 3, a vertical section of the same, on an Now, it is evident that when the tube is enlarged scale, taken on the line as ac, Fig. 1. turned up as far as possible in the nozzle, as The object of my invention is to provide a shown in the dotted lines in Fig.3, the flange nozzle for cans and other vessels, through at the bottom will be drawn up tightly against 65 which the "essel may be filled and also empthe diaphragm and the nozzlewill be comtied, if desired, without removing the cap or pletely closed, the side openings in the tube closing device, while at the same time the latbeing above the diaphragm. If, however, the

; ter maybe readily adjusted so as to completely tube is turned down, as shown by full lines in i close the orifice, to prevent the escape of the the same figure, the aperture I) will be carried 70 contents of the vessel. partly below the diaphragm. In this position In the drawings, Arepresents a can-nozzle, the vessel may be filled by pouring into the the lower portion of which is made flaring or upper end of the tube the liquid escaping at cone-shaped,so as to form a skirt, a, adapted to the bottom thereof through the apertures into 2 5 be attached more readily to thevessel to which the interior of the vessel. 7 5 it is to be applied. The nozzle, as shown in It is evident from the description above that the drawings, is provided with an internal above the diaphragm, and between it and the screw-thread, K, and within it is fitteda thimskirt of the nozzle, there will be an annular ble or tube,B, provided with an exterior screwchamber, extending around the tube, as shown thread cut for some distance upon its upper in Fig. 3. 80 end, so that it may be adjusted by vertically A spout, E, is attached to the lower portion turning in the nozzle. The lower or inner end of the nozzle, opening into this chamber and of this tube is closed by a bottom, O, which as when the tube is turned down in the nozzle projects beyond the circumference of the tube the side apertures are partly below and partly 3 5 to form a flange, 0, extending outward around above the diaphragm, the can may be emptied 85 the lower end of the tube, as shown in Fig. 3 by this latter adjustment of the tube, the liqof the drawings. uid entering the tube through the lower por- A diaphragm, D, is arranged in the lower tion of its apertures, flowing thence through part of the nozzle, at a distance from the upthe upper portion thereof into the annular per end thereof less than the length of the chamber, from which it escapes through the 90 tube B, which passes through a central openspout. ing in the diaphragm to which it is fitted, so I have described and shown the nozzle and as to move easily up and down therein. tube provided with screw-threads as the means The lower side of the diaphragm may be for adjusting the tube 5 but I do not limit myslightly concave or conical, if desired, in which self to this particular construction, for the nec- 5 case the flange at the bottom of the tube essary movement of the tube may be efl'ected should be adapted in form to fit this shape of in any other convenient way, either with or the diaphragm, as .shown in Fig.3 of the drawwithout a device for holding it in the position ings. to which it is adjusted. The construction At the lower end of the tube B openings 1) shown, however, provides a simple and cheap :00

means for accomplishing this result, and therefore is desirable.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- 5 ters Patent, is-

The nozzle A, provided with the skirt a, in combination with the adjustable tube B, provided with elongated openings 1) and flanged bottom 0, the diaphragm D, arranged to form a chamber with the skirt a and tube B, and 10 the spout E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LEWIS I BET'IS. WVitnesses:

bro. 0. MAGGREGOR, L. A. BUNTING. 

